Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti (PCJSS), which signed a peace accord with the Bangladesh authorities in 1997 to finish many years of insurgency, has made a set of calls for in wake to current communal clashes in three hill districts of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), positioned in shut proximity to Tripura. The PCJSS, the apex physique of the indigenous individuals, generally often called Jummas, has accused Bangladesh authorities forces and Bengali “settlers” of inflicting the clashes leading to lack of lives and destruction of houses and retailers.
In a press release launched on Thursday (October 3, 2024), the group’s Assistant Media Secretary Sajib Chakma said that the answer to the disaster lies within the full implementation of the CHT Accord. “There isn’t any various to a political and peaceable resolution to the CHT disaster with out the implementation of the CHT Accord of 1997,” Chakma stated.
The clashes on September 19 and 20 in Khagrachari, Dighinala, and Rangamati resulted within the deaths of 5 individuals together with one Bengali and 4 tribal males. The assertion additionally claimed that a whole lot of Jumma individuals had been injured and over 100 homes and retailers, together with the CHT Regional Council workplace, had been burned and looted.
The PCJSS has made three calls for to the interim authorities of Bangladesh calling for rapid motion to deliver justice to the tribal individuals. These calls for embody a judicial probe into the communal assaults, correct compensation for the households of these killed and injured and punishment for these concerned within the assaults.
Curiously, the PCJSS earlier refused to hitch with its rivals, the UPDF and UPDF (Democratic), to situation a joint assertion condemning the incidents within the CHT. These teams typically have interaction in violent clashes in an try to broaden their affect over the hill tracts.
Printed – October 03, 2024 07:45 pm IST
